Monday, 2 July 2012

Sepia Saturday 133 : 7 July 2012

Today’s image of a baby elephant at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia, is by Sam Hood (1872-1953) and comes from The State Library of New South Wales via flickr. It was taken about 1930. If you want to pick up a theme, apart from the obvious one of elephants, how about: zoos, animal sanctuaries, children and pets, baby animals, circuses, or as Wendy offered on our Facebook page, trunks or wrinkled skin (with a warning about self portraits) and Kathy suggested big ears - which I suppose should carry the same warning. There’s no need to follow the theme if you have a lovely old image to share with us of course, because it really is the taking part that’s important on Sepia Saturday.

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Baby elephants are always a big crowd-pleaser and Taronga Zoo has three at the moment, including one born last year and filmed in the You Tube video below, showing off all their best tricks. Stand by for an “Awwww” moment.

Now, it’s time to share the images for the next two weeks for those who need a little longer to ponder on the direction they’re going with their contribution. Alan will be sailing back to us tomorrow, so next week I’ll be handing back the Sepia Saturday reins to him. Thanks for all the encouragment and kind words; it’s been fun.Marilyn

#1 is of the vintage childrens book, The Saggy Baggy Elephant and is too sweet.

#2 is another postcard packet, this time of Texas c. 1940's.

#3 is a Tin Pot Valley story about an elephant coming to visit the Jesse and Cynthia Applegate farm.

Hope that you enjoy your 4th of July, if your are in the states, and that you all have a wonderful weekend. I think that we are leaving this morning for a long awaited camping trip, and I'll be by to catch up and visit when we get back home.

And can I say, on behalf of myself and all Sepia Saturday participants, a massive thank you to Marilyn for being such an excellent curator in mt absence. I am not sure that I will get time to join in with SS 133, but I will be back with the call for SS 134 early next week. Now, I have a lot of catching up to do ...

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.